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Personalized recommendation with corrected similarity

Information Retrieval 2014-07-30 v1 Social and Information Networks Physics and Society

Abstract

Personalized recommendation attracts a surge of interdisciplinary researches. Especially, similarity based methods in applications of real recommendation systems achieve great success. However, the computations of similarities are overestimated or underestimated outstandingly due to the defective strategy of unidirectional similarity estimation. In this paper, we solve this drawback by leveraging mutual correction of forward and backward similarity estimations, and propose a new personalized recommendation index, i.e., corrected similarity based inference (CSI). Through extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets, the results show a greater improvement of CSI in comparison with these mainstream baselines. And the detailed analysis is presented to unveil and understand the origin of such difference between CSI and mainstream indices.

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@article{arxiv.1405.4095,
  title  = {Personalized recommendation with corrected similarity},
  author = {Xuzhen Zhu and Hui Tian and Shimin Cai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.4095},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

13 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0805.4127 by other authors

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